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I bought a gameboy color for my daughter for christmas. when i brought it home and tried it out the gameboy logo appears and then where it is supposed to say nintendo it just has a black solid box and has the little r in a circle following it.
Well, you don’t expect it to work completely without a game do you? And if you do have a game and it’s just not working, take out the game, blow into the contacts, and put it back in and try again.